People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.